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No more than a famous master can be replaced and another take over the completion of the half-finished painting he has left… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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No pleasure or success in life quite meets the capacity of our hearts. We take in our good things with enthusiasm, and… — Louise Imogen Guiney Copy Share Image
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There have been hermaphrodites around forever, Cal. Forever. Plato said that the original human being was a hermaphrodite. Did you know that?… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
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My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
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The idea of human rights and freedoms must be an integral part of any meaningful world order. Yet, I think it must… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
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Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
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There must be more equality established in society, or morality will never gain ground, and this virtuous equakity will not rest firmly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
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A western buckaroo, I share his scorn for people who go camping by the book, relying on the authority of some half-assed… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
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If you get half a million, at a certain stage you probably will get 4 million people, if they are able to… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
After Bruno's death, during the first half of the seventeenth century, Descartes seemed about to take the leadership of human thought... in… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
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